Former coach fails to have sex conviction overturned

8:01 PM,
Oct. 25, 2013

Rory McKellips

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Daily Herald Media

A former high school girls basketball coach convicted of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime with a then-15-year-old girl failed Friday in his attempt to have his conviction thrown out of court.

Rory McKellips, 56, a coach at Athens High School when the crimes were alleged to have occurred, was convicted in June on the computer-crime charge, but a jury found the Mosinee man innocent on two related charges of sexually assaulting the victim and exposing his genitals to her.

McKellips tried to persuade Marathon County Circuit Judge Michael Moran that the jury erred in finding him guilty of ...